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Quotes About Maturity

As you get older, then you finally come back around full circle when you don't give a s - anymore and you decide I'm going to just tell the truth to everybody. I don't give a s - if anybody likes me.
~ Chelsea Handler
The whole time we're traveling the world. You really mature. You're not just learning truth. The truth is changing you and maturing you.
~ Lecrae
Falsehood is often rocked by truth, but she soon outgrows her cradle and discards her nurse.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.
~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Antithesis may be the blossom of wit, but it will never arrive at maturity unless sound sense be the trunk and truth the root.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
At whatever age you find the truth, that will be your real birth year! That's why man can be born even at the age of eighty!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The truth, I discovered, is a tree that grows as a man gains access to experience. A child sees the acorn of his daily life, but a man looks back on the oak.
~ Robin Hobb
But you were only sixteen and not far off from the truth, as only sixteen-year-olds can be.
~ Lauren Kate
It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.
~ George Bernard Shaw
The truth is that it is our attitude towards children that is right, and our attitude towards grown-up people that is wrong.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
In truth, a mature man who uses hair oil, unless medicinally, that man has probably got a quoggy spot in him somewhere.
~ Herman Melville
We have a mistaken notion of antiquity, calling that so which in truth is the world's nonage.
~ Joseph Glanvill
If you want to become fully mature in the Lord, you must learn to love truth. Otherwise, you will always leave open a door of deception for the enemy to take what is meant to be yours.
~ Joyce Meyer
As you get older your willingness to tell more of the truth is awakened and you don't have to think about it or imagine it because now you know this to be true.
~ Keith David
As you get older, life gets harder if you're not applying spiritual truths.
~ Marianne Williamson
To me, at forty-four years old, my book was a search for truth and identity.
~ Melissa Gilbert
The real truth about children is they don't speak the language very well. They're physically uncoordinated. And they are ignorant of our elaborate ideas about right and wrong.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
Eighteen is a terrible age, and while I walked around with the conviction that I was somehow more grown-up than my classmates, the truth was that I had merely found a different way of being young.
~ Paul Auster
I covet truth; beauty is unripe childhood's cheat; I leave it behind with the games of youth.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
To tell you the truth, I think it's about that we shouldn't get our driver's licenses till real late in life.
~ Sandra Cisneros
Growing up sometimes forces us to confront the distance between our childhood hope and the truth.
~ Sara Shandler
Once turn to practice, error and truth will no longer consort together.
~ Thomas Carlyle
Calculated is the truth of adulthood, whereas honest is the truth of a child.
~ Wes Fesler
I speak the truth not so much as I would but as much as I dare and I dare a little more as I grow older.
~ Michel de Montaigne